Every year we give a gift to James’ teachers, but since we have so many people to buy for we have to watch our budget. This year we decided to make gift baskets featuring Cold Stone Creamery’s new Hot Chocolate line. We found some great coupons on their site (see top right corner), that saved us even more money – bonus! You can also find recipes on the site to make that cup of cocoa even more yummy!
#ColdStoneCocoa was the perfect idea because James has one male and one female teacher and cocoa is definitely loved by all – regardless of gender. For his male teacher we stuck with the basics – Cold Stone Cocoa, a Santa mug, flavored marshmallows, chocolates, candy canes (great for stirring your cocoa), and a Cold Stone Creamery gift card. For his female teacher we added some candles and holiday spray because she loves “smelly” things according to James.
Budget – for both baskets we spent just under $65 because we included the gift cards, but if we had decided to skip those both baskets would have been less $25 so keep this in mind when looking for that perfect, inexpensive gift!
Check out how cute the baskets turned out:
If you haven’t tried this cocoa before you really should. You can find it at your local Wal-Mart. It is much more creamy than other brands and richer too. We tried it for the first time a couple months ago and have gone through a box every week since that time. Are you a cocoa fanatic? If so come join our Whrrl Societ – The Cold Stone Creamery Hot Cocoa Society and let’s talk cocoa!
Disclosure: This shop was paid for by Collective Bias.
Love the gift baskets Lisa! You will have 2 very happy teachers.
Anything Cold Stone is yummy. Can’t wait to try it.
You know I didn’t know that Cold Stone had cocoa!
Kas
What wonderful baskets! Anyone would be thrilled with those!
great idea for gift baskets…i’ll have to try the cocoa, and remember this for next years’ gift giving.